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Bloom was born in New York City on July 11, 1930, [7] to Paula (née Lev) and William Bloom. He lived in the Bronx at 1410 Grand Concourse. [9] [10] He was raised as an Orthodox Jew in a Yiddish-speaking household, where he learned literary Hebrew; [11] he learned English at the age of six. [12]
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages is a 1994 book about Western literature by the American literary critic Harold Bloom, in which the author defends the concept of the Western canon by discussing 26 writers whom he sees as central to the canon.
John Crowley / ˈ k r aʊ l i / (born December 1, 1942) is an American author of fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, and non-fiction. Crowley studied at Indiana University and has a second career as a documentary film writer.
Pages in category "Books by Harold Bloom" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. The American Religion;
Rosemary Hawley Jarman (1935–2015), historical novels; Marguerite Florence Laura Jarvis (Oliver Sandys, 1886–1964) Robin Jarvis (born 1963), The Whitby Witches; Edith Spicer Jay (1847–1901), military novels; John Cordy Jeaffreson (1831–1901) Michael Jecks (born 1960), historical mystery novels; Edgar Jepson (1863–1938) Margaret Jepson ...
The two paragons of his theory are Sir John Falstaff of Henry IV and Hamlet, whom Bloom sees as representing self-satisfaction and self-loathing, respectively. These two characters, along with Iago and Cleopatra, Bloom believes (citing A. C. Bradley) are "the four Shakespearean characters most inexhaustible to meditation". [1]
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry is a 1973 book by Harold Bloom on the anxiety of influence in writing poetry. It was the first in a series of books that advanced a new "revisionary" or antithetical [ 1 ] approach to literary criticism .
Harold Bloom included it in his Western Canon; James Wood in his list of best English-language novels since 1945. [10] [11] A review in Kirkus Reviews compared The Sot-Weed Factor to the works of Rabelais, Boccaccio, Cervantes and Voltaire, but criticized some elements of the book as "pornography and scatology". [12]